Quick Facts
The Temple is the area on either side of your face next to the eyes. Temple hollowing can creates the appearance of age.
Replacing volume in the temples may lead to:
What is the temple?
The temple is the area bordered by your forehead, outer eye socket, upper cheek bone (zygomatic arch), and hairline. The temples can affect the overall look of your face. A round, well-contoured temple can add to the look of youth and freshness. A refreshed temple softly blends with the adjacent forehead and cheek area without sharp demarcated edges. It helps support the outer section of the eyebrow called the tail of the brow and prevents it from disappearing with ageing.
Disclaimer: The details shared here are for general educational purposes only. Everyone’s situation is unique, and results can vary. Please consult a qualified practitioner to discuss whether this treatment is right for you and to understand any possible risks or side effects.
What causes temple hollowing?
As we age, we lose collagen and volume in our skin, muscles, fat and bone. This leads to a hollowing of the temples, which subtly changes the appearance of our face. Margins between the temple and surrounding forehead, cheeks and eyes become sharper. In addition, the loss of volume in your temples can create a shadowed appearance over your cheekbones and eyes and can cause the eyebrows to fold backward and appear short and low.
Although temple hollowing can occur with age, it can also develop in individuals who are very athletic or have experienced significant weight loss. The hollowing process often begins in your 20s or 30s and is a slow, gradual loss of volume that is often unnoticed by the patient. Only after the temples have been treated do patients realise the anti-ageing benefits. The clinicians at Face To Face Medical are trained in assessing and treating the subtleties of facial ageing.
Consultations for temple hollowing
We offer consultations which address the volume lost due to age. Replacing the volume loss also has other benefits including:
- Lifting the outer part of the brows
- Changing the appearance of the forehead area
- Lifting the cheeks and brows, and therefore improving the facial shape from a peanut shape to a more oval shape
- Addressing saggy skin in the area, including the area around the sides of the eyes
- Creating a soft junction between the temples, forehead, eyes and cheeks, leading to a more youthful and soft appearance.
For this reason, even if you wear your hair over your temples, you will still benefit from a consultation regarding temple hollowing.
It is important to blend the temple with the surrounding areas of the cheek along the zygomatic (cheek) arch, the forehead, and the outer side of the eye socket. Addressing the cheeks and cheekbone shape during the same consultation is sometimes beneficial to achieve a more balanced facial shape look. We are always mindful of maintaining a natural look.
Temple hollowing consultation
What is involved in a 'Temple hollowing' consultation?
A thorough assessment and consultation followed by a treatment plan is discussed with you. Each patient has individual anatomy, goals, and facial balance so we individualize every treatment. Included in the assessment is a careful observation of your facial movements in animation and at rest, your facial shape, and your facial proportions. Photographic documentation is part of every initial assessment. The clinicians at Face To Face Medical are highly skilled and strive for the best and most natural solutions possible.